Typographical machine



Nov. 29, 1927. 1,651,095

- J. G. MONAMARA TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE Original Filed May 9. 1925 s Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR g m WWMM Nov. 29, 1927.

J. G. M NAMARA TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE Original Filed May 9, 1925 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Nov. 29, 1927. 1,651,095

Y J. G. McNAMARA TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE Original Filed May 9, 1925 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 ml" "II V nu mum Patented as. as, 1927.

. UNITED STATES JAMES G. MoNAMARe, or 13'EOOKLYN,NEWYOEIV, itssrenon 'ro assessment. LINorYrE O01VI1?ANY, A ooRPoRArIon or NEW YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

Application filed May 9, 1925, Serial My invention relates to typographical machines, such as linotype machines of the general organization representedin Letters Patentof the United States to O. Morgen- 5 thaler No. 436,532, wnereincirculating matrices are released from a magazine in the order in which their characters are to appear in print and then assembled in line, the coinposed line transferred to the face of a slotted mold, the mold filled with molten metal 'to form a slug or linotype against the matrices which produce the type characters thereon, and the matrices thereafter returned through distributing mechanism to the magazine from which they started, More particularly, it relates to that class of machines capable of handling both ordinary and display fonts, such as that shown and described in the Kennedy Patent No. 1,397,974, wherein the keyboard connections may be adjusted at the will of the operator to provide for the release of matrices of. one kind or another, as desired, notwithstanding their ditferent location in their 5 respective magazines.

The present invention contemplates an improved arrangement. for accomplishing somewhat the same results. It is herein proposed to employ two sets of escapement actua ting rods which may be adjusted to bring one set or the other into operative relation to the keyboard 'as desired. The rods of one set are operable independently to actuate the escapem-ents of a magazine containing an ordinary font. while those of the other set are arranged to actuate the escapemcn'ts of a magazine containing a display font through certain rods of the first set. Tobe more specific, the rods of the second set havetheir lower ends align-ed with the rods of the first set so as to be operated by the same finger keys. but have the upper ends of some offset laterally to engage and operate different rods of the first set in actuating the cscapements of the display magazine. The adjustment of the escapementactuating rods is controlled in such manner thatwhen either a display or an ordinary font is brought into use, the finger keys will he caused to effect the release of the corresponding matriceswithout regard to their different relative location in the magazine channels.

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' onnectiofo "a No. "29,027. Renewed June 15, 1927.

magazines of different widths and as ap plied to a shiftahle multiple magazine machine of thefkind known to the trade as model 8, or such as is illustrated in the Rogers Patent No. 1,109,872, but it should he understood that they are equally appliahle to magazines of the same or standard size as well as to machines of other kinds, including those equipped only with a single magaz ne. In short, I have herein shown my invention merely in preferred form and by way of example, and obviously many changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from its spirit. I therefore desire it to he understood that I do not limit myself to any specific form or embodiment, except in so far as such limi n'saregspecifiedin the claims.

eferring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is :a front elevation of a linotype machine embodying the present improvements; 1

Fig. 2 is a side elevation on an enlarged scale of the'parts shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. .3 is a front elevation of the lefthand portion of the assembling mechanism with the front plate removed; and

Fig. 4 is .a transverse, vertical section, showing the improved connections between the keyboard mechanism and a magazine.

As in the Rogers patent before mentioned the several magazines are carried by the shift frame A, composed in part of the two swinging has'e frames .A and which is 'ar ranged to be raised-and lowered in the wellknown manner by the operation of a hand crank so as to 'bring'rany selected one of the magazines into operative relation to the assembler entrance B. The magazines are located in operative position by the ordinary looking bar (1, which is slidably mounted in the fixed brackets C and controlled from' the rock shaift C through the intermediate coirneot-ingarms "C The 'ba-r C, as usual, is normally held in its looking position by a spring C and is moved manually to unlocking position by means arranged within conveniientjreach of the operator, such means in the present instance comprising the offset lever C fastened at its rear end to the shaft C? and provided nearits forward end with a notch C? presenting shoulders CT, the purpo of which will hereinafter b As shown the shift fro gle magazine Z, the magazines Y being of the regular or standard form and provided with ninety-one grooved channels spaced apart in the usual way to adapt them to contain the ordinary ninety character matriX fonts, whereas the magazine Z, although similarly provided with ninetyone grooved channels, is of special form, being wider than the magazines Y and having its channels more wide y spaced apart to adapt them to contain a ninety character matrix display font. The magazines Y and Z are provided with series of escapements Y and Z respectively, which control the release of the individual matrices, and these escapements or those of the operative magazine are adapted to be actuated by a single row or series of power-operated slides D (ninety in number) controlled from the finger keys of the keyboard D through the usual trip dogs D cam yokes D and constantly driven rolls 1).

Ordinarily, asingle set of rods or reeds having their lower ends arranged in operative relation-to the cam yokes is employed to actuate the magazine escapements, either directly or through a corresponding set of escapement levers. However, in the present instance, since like matrices of the ordinary and display fonts are controlled by escapements located respectively in different verti cal planes, means are provided for establishing one series of connections between the finger keys of the keyboard and the escapements of a regular magazine when the composition of strai ht matter is desired, and another series of connections between the keys and the escapements of the special magazine when the larger or display 1natrices are desired. In the embodiment illustrated, there are employed two sets of escapement actuating rods E, E mounted in a pivoted frame F. which may be adjusted to and fro to bring either set into operative relation to the key-controlled slides D. T he rods E are substantially uniform in shape and length throughout and afford a series of direct connections between the slides D and the escapements of a regular magazine Y when in operative position. The rods E on the other hand, which are employed in making up the other series of connections or those for the wide magazine Z, while hav ing their lower ends aligned respectively with the rods E so as to be actuated by the same slides D are of diiierent lengths, the longer ones (those comprising the two groups located at the extremeright and left, Fig. 1), affording, like the rods E, direct connections between the slides D and such escapements of the wide magazine as are located beyond the lateral limits of the regular magazines, and the shorter rods (those arranged betwe'enthe two side groups) being offset at their upper ends so as to engage and operate certain of the rods E in actuating such escapements of the wide magazine as are locatedwit-hin the lateral limits of the regular magazines. In other words, some of the escapements of the wide magazine are disposed in the same vertical planes as certain escapements of the regular magazines, and hence the offsetting of the shorter rods E is carried out in such manner that, in actuating the appropriate escapeinents of the wide magazine when the latter is in use, they will operate those rodsE oi the first set which actuate the correspondingly located escapements of the regular magazines. To do this, the upper oiitset ends oi the shorter rods E are made to engage in notches "formed in the rear edges of the appropriate rods E. With the arrangement just described, when one of the regular magazines Y is brought into use, the frame F is adjusted to locate the rods E in operative relation to the slides D so that the linger keys will. be properly connected to-the escapen'ients or the selected magazine for the release of corresponding matrices of the ordinary iont therein contained; whereas, when the special magazine Z is selected for use, the frame F is adjusted to bring the rods E into operative relation to the slides D so that the finger keys will be properly connected to the escapements of that magazine for the release of the corresponding matrices of the contained display font. 7

As a further feature of the invention, it is proposed to provide means whereby the two said series of connections above described are established automatically, and preferably so that when a regular magazine is substituted for the display magazine, or vice versa, the corresponding set of escape ment actuating rods will be properly con nected to the keyboard by the same act. To this end, there is provided a lever G pivoted between its ends to a stationary'bracket G located at the extreme leit-hand side of the entrance The lower end of the lever G is arranged to engage an upwardly disposed arm F on the shift frame F, while its upper end is located in the path of the wide or display magazine Z so as to be engaged thereby when the latter is brought into use. hen the lever G is thus engaged with the magazine Z, the shift frame F will be set with the rods E in operative relation to the slides D it, being remembered that such rods are the ones employed to control the release of the display matrices. A pull spring F arranged between the arm F and the assembler front plate 0 serves to hold said parts in their adjusted position. hen one of the regular magazines is brought into use, however, the lever G (as shown in the drawings) is arrested by a pin J protruding from a pivoted yoke or frame J, presently to be described. This pin J serves to setthe shift frame with the actuating rods '12 in Hill "operative "relation to the slides D (see Fig. 2:). Instead or having the frame shitted to its adjusted "positions during the actual inovement of the magazines, as might Well bethe case, it is proposed to rock the control lever G out of the path of themag-a- Zine'sas the locking rod C is released, such rod, as before stated, being employed to lo- Cate the respective magazines in operative position. "this action, the frani'e F is shifted" fo'riva'rdly to an abnormal position, and as the red C is returnea to its locking position by the spring C the u per end of the lever G be allowed to seat against "the end of the display "ii'iagaz'ine if the latter happens to be the one selected, or reinain seated'ag'ainst the stop 1 if one of the "regular magazines is selected.

In order that the escapenient rods E, 15 "may be inovd out of "the pathof the mega- Z'in's during their interchange, they are garden at their upper in an angle *plate J secured to the yoke J, the "latter being 'pi'vo-tally mounted on the rod J and ari'anged so to be locked back-and fort-h by the lia l icl lBV'eT liffifie ii ""IQCl C0. nn'ection between the yoke J and the hand lever C is eflecteclt a short arm J 4 CeXte'n-dforwardly from the yoke and having a stud J a r-ranged to engage the slroulclers of the lever G An adjiista'ble stop pi'n J, carried in the end of arm J? eiiten'ding rearwa' rcllyfrom the yoke J and engagin the supportin bracket O is held against the latter by the spring 16* through the lever *C' an d "servesto locate the upper ends "of the rods E, E inoperativerelation 'to the niag a- 'zi n'e escapenien'ts. It will now he'cl'ear (see '2) that, by depressing the 'hen'c'l lever C 150 mil "ck the magazines, the shoulder U will engage the stud J and rock the n pper ends "of the rods E, E from under the esc'apen'ientsSand out of the Way of the megazines. Atfthe same "time -the pin J against which "the lever G is held by the spring F rocks the upper portion or said lever for-- *asrdly through the arm F and shifts the frame F so as to carry the lower ends of the escapenient actuating rods to an abnormal position forward of the slides, D The :parts are maintained in this condition until the selected magazine is brought into op'erative position, when the hand lever C is 'releasedanc'l the pa rts allowed toresu ne their normal condition, as indicated. However, if the magazine selected happensfto be the wider or display magazine Z, the upper end of the lever .G will be arrested thereby asv magazines of different widths, the improvements herein shown and described are equally applicable-t0 magazines of the "same Width and like forni,'except in solar as the autoi'i'l'aticselection of the actuating rodsis concerned, and this latter feature could be readily retained hy 'pro viding the magazines "with distinguishing projections of some sort an-m-edro cooperate with the control lever T ms, for exam le, the present scheme for establishing operative connections between the keyboard and two fonts oi matrices, wherein like matrices are disposed n difler- "ent rela' ve vertical planes, would appl just as well where the ordinaryninetychann'el magazine i'vas combined With the corn 'i'nercial seventy tivo channel display ihagazine. *O'i course, in such event, the changes incurred by Widening "the ass'einbl'er entrance (as show on Fig. 1) would not be n cessar and the groups of lon er rods E at the left and right could be eliminated. Thege and other modifications will readily sug est themselves to those skilled in the art and still he comprised Within 'the scope "of the iliventio'n. 7

iiaving 'thii's described my invention, its construction and mode of operation, what I 'olaima'nd desire to secure by Letters Patent "otthe United States as 'foilloi'v's:

'1'. In a -typographi'cal machine, the 'c'o'ihbination of two interchangeable magazines of dilferent Widths, one containing 'a-fo'n't "of matrices occupying certain channels according to character, and the other containing a font "of matrices occupying differently located channels according to character, means matrices occupying certain channels accord-' ing to character, and the other containing a font of matrices occupying difliere'ntly locatedjchann'els 'acc'orc'ling to character, "means for selecting either mag a'z'in-e for use, a keyb0ard,it\vo sets of'escapernent actuating rods through which the finger keys of tire keyhoard control the release of like matrices of the two fonts, "and means operable by saidselecting means for connecting the rods of either set to the respective finger Fkeysaccording to the magazine in use.

i 3. In a typographical inachine. the combination of two magazines of different Widths and each provided With "a series of es'capements, some of the escapeinents of the wider magazine being arrangedin the same vertical planes as certain escapements of the other magazine, a keyboard, and two sets of escapement actuating rods, those of one set being operable independently by the finger keys to actuate the escapements of one magazine, and. those of the other set being operable by the same respective finger keys but having their upper ends offset laterally to actuate directly certain escapements of the wider magazine and others indirectly through such rods of the first set that actuate the escapements vertically aligned with those of said wider magazine.

4. In a typographical machine adapted to be equipped with interchangeable magazines, one containing a font of matrices occupying certain channels according to charactor, and the other containing a font of matrices occupying differently located chan nels according to character, the combination of a keyboardyand two sets of actuating rods through which the finger keys of said keyboard control the release of like matrices of the two fonts, the rods of one set being operable independently to release the matrices of one font, and those of the other set being arranged to operate, at least in part, through certain rods of the first set to release the matrices of the other font.

5. In a typographical machine, the combination of two interchangeable magazines provided with differently spaced escapemerits, some of the esoapements of one magazine being arranged in the same vertical planes as certain escapements of the other magazine, means for selecting either magazine for use, and two sets of key-controlled escapement actuating rods, those of one set being arranged to actuate directly the re spect-ive escapements of one magazine, and those of the other, set being arranged to actuate the escapements of the other magazine, at least in part, through such rods of the first set that actuate the correspondingly located escapements of the first magazine.

6. In a typographical machine, the combi nation of two interchangeable magazines,

each provided with a series of escapements,

those of one magazine being spaced apart differently from those of the other inagazine, means for selecting either magazine for use, a single series of finger keys, two

sets of esoapcment actuating rods, an ad ustable frame wherein both sets are mounted, and means controlled by the magazine selected for automatically adjusting said frame to bring the corresponding set of actuating rods into operative relation to said finger keys.

7. In a typographical machine, the combination of two interchangeable magazines provided with differently spaced escapements, some of the escapements of one magazine be ng arranged in the samevertical planes as certain escapements of the other magazine, means for selecting-either magazine for use, a series of finger keys, and two sets of escapement actuating rods adjustably arranged so that one set or the othermay be brought into operative relation to said keys, the rods of one set being operable independently to actuate the escapements of one magazine. and those of the other set having their upper ends offset laterally to actuate the escape'ments of the other magazine. at'least in part, through such rods of set in actuating the escapements of the other magazine, an adjustable frame wherein the rods of both sets are mounted, and means controlled by the magazine in usefor locating the adjustable frame With the corresponding set of actuating rods in operative relation to said key-controlled devices.

9. In a typographical machine, thecombination of two interchangeable magazines, each provided with a series of escapements, those of one magazine being spaced apart differently from those of the other magazine, means for selectingeither magazine for use, a series of finger keys, two sets of intermediate escapement actuating rods, one set" being operable in con]unct1on with the other to actuate the escapements of one magazine, and the other set being operable independently to actuate the escapements of the other magazine, and means for bringing either set under the control of the finger keys accord ing to the magazine selected. i

10. In a typographical machine, the combination of a keyboard and two sets of escapement actuating rods adjustably arranged so that either set may be operatively connected to the keyboard, the rods of one set being operable independently, and thoseof the other set being arranged to engage and operate certain selected rods of the first set, at least in part. I

11. In a typographical machine, the com bination of a keyboard, a single series of key-controlled power-operated devices, two sets of escapement actuating rods having their lower ends aligned so as to be operated by the same key-controlled devices, an adjustable frame in which both sets are mounted, and. means for adjusting frame 7 to bring either set into the range of action of said devices, the actuating rods of one set being arranged to function independently, and those of the other set being ofiset laterally at their upper ends to function, at least in part, through certain rods of the first set.

12. In a typographical machine, the combination of two interchangeable magazines,

each provided with a series of escapements, the escapements of one magazine being spaced apart differently from those of the other, meansfor selecting either magazine for use, a series of finger keys, two sets of escapement actuating rods, one for. each magazine, an adjustable frame wherein the lower ends of said rods are mounted, a pivoted yoke for moving the rods out of the path of the magazines, an intermediate lever connected to said frame and having its upper end arranged to cooperate with one of said magazines to'locate the corresponding set ofescapement rods in operative relation ing the selected magazine in position, a series of finger keys, two sets of escapement actuating rods, one for each magazine, an adjustable frame wherein .the lower ends of said rods-are mounted, a pivoted yoke for supporting the upper ends of the rods, an intermediate leverconnected to both yoke and frame and controlled by the magazine in use to locate the corresponding set of escapement actuating rods in operative relation to the finger keys, and means whereby the opperation of said locking means automatically rocks said yoke to swing the upper ends of the rods out of the path of the magazine and to permit the readjustment of said frame and ,escapement 1 rods through said lever as determined by the magazine selected.

14. In a typographical machine, the combination of two interchangeable magazines,

each provided with a series of escapements,

the escapements of one magazine being spaced apart differently from those of the other, means for selecting either magazine for use, a device for locking the selected magazine in operative position, a hand lever for releasing said device, a series of finger keys, two sets of escapement actuating rods movably arranged so that either set may be brought into operative relation to the finger keys and escapements, means operable by the hand lever for shifting the rods of both sets out of operative relation to the finger keys and escapements as the locking device is released, and means controlled by the selected magazine for automatically bringing into operation the corresponding set of escapement rods as said locking device is restored to its locking position. 7

In testimony whereof, I have afiixed my signature hereto.

.JAMES G. MGNAMARA, 

